Calendar

February 2018:      

SUNSHINE ON LEITH

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 13 Feb
Healesville: Tues 20 Feb

• UK - 2013   
• Comedy/drama/musical   100m   PG

Two Scottish soldiers return home to resume their romantic and family lives.  Dexter Fletcher's warm, infectious film is built around the music of The Proclaimers and is an unabashed ad for the city of Edinburgh. Stars Peter Mullan and George MacKay.

THE DANCER

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 13 March
Healesville: Tues 20 March

• France/Belgium - 2016  
• Biography/Drama   108m  M

Loie Fuller was the toast of the Folies Bergeres at the turn of the 20th century and an inspiration for Toulouse-Lautrec and the Lumiere brothers. The film revolves around her complicated relationship with protege and rival, Isadora Duncan. Directed by Stephanie Di Giusto.

April 2018:              

THE FAMILY

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 10 April
Healesville: Tues 17 April

• Australia - 2016  
• Documentary  98m    M

Rosie Jones directs this compelling investigation into one of Australia's most notorious cults, its leader Anne Hamilton-Byrne and the scars its survivors still bear today.

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ALONE IN BERLIN

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 8 May
Healesville: Tues 15 May

• UK/Germany/France - 2016   
• drama/war    103m   M

After a German working-class couple lose their son in World War 2, they decide to retaliate by secretly distributing handwritten cards in Berlin denouncing their government. Directed by Vincent Perez and starring Emma Thompson and Brendon Gleason.

THE WOMEN ON THE 6TH FLOOR

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 12 June
Healesville: Tues 19 June

• France - 2010

• Comedy/drama   102m    PG

In 1960's Paris, a conservative couple's lives are turned upside down by the arrival of a new maid from Spain. The ever-reliable Fabrice Luccini (In the House, Courted) stars in this delightful comedy directed by Phillippe Le Guay.

I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 10 July
Healesville: Tues 17 July

• USA - 2016    
• Documentary  93m  M

Writer, James Balwin tells the story of race in modern America with his unfinished novel, Remember This House. An artistic and daring political statement by Haitian-born film-maker Raoul Peck who spent 10 years on this project.

AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 14 August
Healesville: Tues 21 August

• Germany - 1972  
• Historical drama  95m   M

^{In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. Possibly director Werner Herzog's (and Kinski's) greatest film, Aguirre is a powerful, spell-binding portrait of a man obsessed, stunningly shot on location in the jungles of South America.}

DON'T TELL

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 11 Sept
Healesville: Tues 18 Sept

• Australia - 2017   
• Drama      110m   M

With help from a local lawyer, a young abuse survivor finds the courage to speak out. This riveting courtroom drama uses the actual transcripts of a case which led to a change of the law in Australia. Directed by Tori Garret and starring Jack Thompson and Sara West.

THE LIVES OF OTHERS

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 9 Oct
Healesville: Tues 16 Oct

• Germany - 2006
• Drama       137m   MA

In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police (Ulrich Muhe), conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives. Oscar winner for Best Foreign Language Film. Directed by Florian Henckel.

NERUDA

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 13 Nov
Healesville: Tues 20 Nov

• Chile/Argentina - 2016
• Drama   107m   MA

An inspector hunts down Nobel Prize-winning Chilean poet, Pablo Neruda, who becomes a fugitive in his home country in the 1940's for joining the Communist Party. Pablo Lorrain's intriguing film is a provocative mix of fact and and fantasy. Stars Gael Garcia Bernal.

MON ONCLE

Time: 7.30pm
Warburton: Tues 11 Dec
Healesville: Tues 18 Dec

• France - 1958
• Comedy   116m    G

Monsieur Hulot returns in Jacques Tati's second outing for the character following M. Hulot's Holiday. This time, Hulot struggles with the technology and coldness of the (then) modern world. Tati's own nostalgic longing for the "old" Paris pervades the film.